"His Majesty said before that there is no need to be too taboo, so I just said it."
"Talking to you will make me angry to death sooner or later."
"If your majesty dies young, I will help your majesty raise the princes and princesses in the palace. They are all my wife's younger brothers and sisters. Even if they do some mischief, I will always bring them up."
Li Shimin held his forehead and said, "I will naturally explain my funeral arrangements."
Zhang Yang shook his fan and said with a smile: "It doesn't hurt to explain it earlier."
Standing beside him were the guards who came out of the palace. Li Junxian listened to Zhang Yang's bold words and now wanted to kill him with a knife. This man dared to talk about His Majesty's funeral.
Almost forgetting why he came to see Zhang Yang this time, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "I heard that the queen bought a thousand hectares of Turkic land for you for three thousand guan?"
"Your Majesty said it wrong, it's not a purchase, it's a contract." Zhang Yang nodded, "Yes, contract for ten years."
"This money is just scratching the surface for you."
"Three thousand guan of money is too much. I know that the Central Plains and the Turks will have good weather in the next ten years, but the Turks don't know it. So for me, this is a sure-profit deal."
Taking a sip of warm tea, Zhang Yang smiled and said, "I wonder if Your Majesty is interested in participating and investing tens of thousands of dollars to make it bigger and stronger with me."
When money was mentioned, Li Shimin gritted his teeth, "I don't have that much money."
Zhang Yang thought about it, "If you don't have money, it's not impossible. Your Majesty can borrow your capital from me."
"borrow?"
"This year's grain harvest will be bumper. In order to prevent the low price of grain from hurting farmers, the imperial court has spent one hundred thousand guan to harvest grain. I admire your majesty's courage." Zhang Yang first bowed his hand and said, "I'll forget it with my wife."
Calculate, judging from the taxes and palace expenses in the first two years of the Tang Dynasty, after taking out one hundred thousand guan, there will be very little money left in the palace."
Zhang Yang took another sip of tea and nodded: "Well, His Majesty has no money, so as early as half a month ago I asked His Highness the King of Wei to send money from time to time to support the palace."
First he was angry, it turned out that he had planned all this.
No matter how embarrassed or angry I am, I feel like a pitiful person in front of this boy.
After that, he felt disappointed. Li Shimin snorted coldly: "How did you know?"
Zhang Yang sighed: "Your Majesty underestimates the art of numerology."
Li Yue took out a file in front of his father. It listed numbers and some complicated formulas.
"Father, my daughter and husband calculated the number of acres of land in Guanzhong based on the files brought from Zuozangku. They only collected 50% of the grain from the millions of acres of fertile land in Guanzhong. The amount of money my father had to pay was at least 20
Wan Guan."
Li Shimin took a deep breath. He couldn't understand this file at all. The numbers listed one by one in these complicated formulas were simply from heaven.
"Yue'er, the files in Zuozangku are all from the former Sui Dynasty. You are right and the price is very close. It is not 200,000 guan, but 160,000 guan."
Li Yue's data source is the archives of the former Sui Dynasty. Today's Tang Dynasty has not yet reached its peak of national power, so the amount of money is only a lot more.
"I can solve your majesty's urgent need and lend you 60,000 yuan, but I have to use the entire Qujiang Pool as a mortgage until your majesty pays it back."
"Sixty thousand strings?"
Li Yue nodded, "Lishan will be able to come up with this money in September."
Li Shimin nodded and said: "You want the entire Qujiang Pool?"
"It's best to give me three or five more soldiers to look after this place. Some powerful people are of very poor quality and leave a lot of garbage every time they come here, ruining the scenery of Qujiang Pool. From now on, this Qujiang Pool will be our family's private property."
"Of course." Zhang Yang smiled again, "If your majesty wants to enter Qujiang Pool, no one will stop you. You are a member of the family, including the prince and princess."
"I gave you Qujiang Pond, where are you really going to hold a banquet?"
"Then it's none of my business."
The whole boy never lets go of anything. He wants to use Qujiang Pool in exchange. This is simply because he values Qujiang Pool and wants to make the whole place his.
Li Shimin glanced here, "I am indeed short of money. Even if you don't need to borrow it, I can still scrape together 60,000 guan."
"Then, will the expenses of the palace depend entirely on the support of the King of Wei?"
Li Shimin gritted his teeth again.
Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, once the low prices of grain and the harm to farmers occur, they will not stop. Someone will sell a large amount of grain at a low price. There will be an increase in production but not an increase in income or even a decrease in income. By then, it will be difficult to harvest.
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Li Shimin closed his eyes. The son-in-law in front of him was like a devil. He was following the temptation and wanted to take away the entire Qujiang Pool.
The Tang Dynasty was founded in chaos, and the chaos in the Central Plains almost wiped out the population of the Central Plains.
Now is the time for the Central Plains to regain its strength.
There must never be a situation where the grain prices are low and the farmers are harmed.
This kid is full of plans. He took away Lishan Mountain and also took away my Qujiang Pond.
Zhang Yang bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I will keep this matter secret and keep this place under guard. Even if someone comes to ask, they will explain that it is His Majesty's intention."
Li Shimin said coldly: "I know that you have a lot of copper coins in Lishan Mountain, but you have been unwilling to sell them to the court, just to wait for the opportunity. You can know that the next ten years will be good, and you can also know what this year will be like. You
I already had a plan."
Li Yue explained: "Among the hundreds of scholars, there is also one called a meteorologist. My husband can make some inferences even if he knows a little bit about it."
How is it possible to know the climate in the next ten years or so? We can only figure it out from some traces.
During the Zhenguan dynasty, Zhenguan was more concerned with governing than fighting, and accumulated a lot of wealth. This led to several later Western expeditions, all of which reached the borders of Persia, and finally collided with the Great Eater.
Furthermore, during the opening of the Grand Canal in the former Sui Dynasty, the economic powerhouses led by Luoyang began to increase their economic status. From then on, the national power of the Tang Dynasty reached its peak.
Looking at it now, it will take time for Li Shimin to reach that point with his capital.
If you grovel when discussing business with the emperor, the emperor will only look down upon you.
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Li Shimin thought highly of Wei Zheng, but looked down upon Xu Jingzong.
This is the heroic spirit of the heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The reason why the current style of the court is so upright is because the people in high positions in the court were also famous figures on the battlefield in those days.
Everyone looks down upon people who tend to be popular, let alone flatterers.
People praise heroes as such, and this sentence confirms the strong folk customs of the Tang Dynasty.
The emperor has the same difficulties as the emperor. As a son-in-law, in addition to thinking about the country, he also has to take care of his family.
"Your Majesty, what do you think?"
Li Shimin nodded slowly, "It's not that I can't afford the 60,000 guan. I will definitely return this money to you in the future, and the 30 million guan in the future will be returned together."
Zhang Yang smiled and started writing notes.
I actually saw ridicule in this boy's smile. Li Shimin clenched his hands into fists, closed his eyes and said, "You said you would make the Tang Dynasty prosperous and powerful."
"I am your son-in-law. I will help you if you have difficulties. After all, you are also Yue'er's father." Zhang Yang started writing, "My father-in-law, I hope your ambition will not be wiped out by the wealth and honor on the throne.
, A true man keeps his word and does what he says, even if it means he cannot live or die, he still has to do what he says."
"Okay! What a true man, he means what he says. This is my son-in-law."
"Please also ask your Majesty to confirm the documents."
Li Shimin just glanced at it and accepted the note. When he stood up, his eyes fell on his daughter, "Yue'er, I feel relieved to have such a husband to take care of you."
Li Yue bowed and saluted, "No matter what happens in the future, no one knows what life will be like. As long as I share weal and woe with my husband."
The emperor nodded and left with the note.
Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Yue stepped forward, took her husband's arm, and smiled with happiness and tenderness. "My husband originally wanted to help my father, and he also negotiated terms with my father like this."
"Daughter-in-law, let your father know that getting help comes with a price."
Seeing Li Shimin leave, Li Yue smiled and said: "In my husband's heart, the world needs an emperor who can work hard to govern."
Holding his wife's shoulders, Zhang Yang said: "You can't let your father think that Lishan is his money bag."
"My husband and father are both people with ideals."
Family harmony is the best. It cannot be said that there is a very harmonious relationship between my family and the emperor, at least they are one family.
Li Yue told Aunt Yang: "Please ask Auntie to go to the village and ask Niu Chuang to send someone to Longyou to ensure that the treasures and cotton sent by Gaochang can be delivered to the village safely."
"Here."
From now on, it will be very difficult for me to come up with 60,000 guan of silver from my own family.
There was a bumper grain harvest in Guanzhong and a bumper cotton harvest in Gaochang, and with them came a pile of treasures.
According to what Adalan said in the letter, he started to fight continuously last year and robbed a lot of treasures. These treasures were also stored in the Gaochang treasury.
Li Shimin was about to send an envoy to Gaochang. Since these treasures could not be handed over to the court, they had to be sent to the village.
Half a month later...
Gaochang sent this year's newly harvested cotton to the village. The carriages were filled with cotton, and there were still several trips to deliver it back and forth.
There is more cotton this year than last year, and the land for growing cotton was also acquired by Gaochang last year. Cotton was only planted on that land at the beginning of this year.
Cotton is very light, and the carriage is not heavy to pull, so the pile of cotton on each carriage is two feet high.
After Li Xiaogong arranged for manual escort, the transportation of cotton was also safe.
After Lishan received this year's new cotton, Li Shimin also secretly took out 60,000 guan of silver.
When boxes of money, totaling 60,000 yuan, appeared in front of their eyes, both Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling were shocked.
The court has clearly checked many times to find out where your majesty got so much money.
Li Shimin whispered: "Is this 60,000 yuan enough?"
Fang Xuanling looked at the file in his hand and said, "The various ministries in the imperial court and the central government came up with 40,000 guan, totaling 100,000 guan, which is enough."
"Forty thousand strings?"
Fang Xuanling nodded, "Among them, the Ministry of Rites brought out a box of silver cakes worth 20,000 guan. This was ordered by Zhang Yang, the Minister of Rites. It was said that the court was in trouble and he was bound to take responsibility for it."
Li Shimin smiled again. When the court was in trouble, as a minister, Zhang Yang was naturally duty-bound to provide money and effort.
As a son-in-law, he is not polite in bargaining with me.
My good son-in-law.
The Diplomatic Academy is rich, and very rich.
This is all known to the six departments.
Even Li Baiyao, in addition to his salary from the Central Government, also received the usual monthly payment from the Foreign Affairs Academy.
The same is true for the officials of the Foreign Affairs Council. As long as the staff of the Foreign Affairs Council is available, even the small officials who just deal with some miscellaneous things can have one hundred yuan per month.
This makes the other six movies particularly envious.
It's not because of anything else, but because your Majesty's son-in-law is very wealthy. Many people don't know how rich Zhang Yang's family is.
After solving the problem of collecting grain, Li Shimin looked much more domineering when he walked.
Returning to the Li Zheng Palace, Li Shimin looked at Li Tai and said, "Qing Que, there is no need to send these things to the palace in the future."
Li Tai was stunned and then explained awkwardly: "My son is just taking care of his younger brothers and sisters to make my father laugh."
Li Shimin asked again: "I have something to ask you, please tell the truth."
"My son, I must tell you the truth."
"How much money do you have now?"
Li Tai made some calculations in his mind, "I received 5,000 guan last month because the second cotton factory in Lishan opened. Now I have a family of 16,000 guan. I struggled at the beginning of the year and the results were not good. In September
From now on, the money in your hands should be doubled."
Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this. Sixteen thousand guan had been accumulated through hard work from the beginning of the year to now.
"How much money does Zhang Yang have?"
"My son, I don't know."
"You really don't know?"
Li Tai lowered his head and whispered: "According to the division of accounts between the son-in-law and his brother-in-law, the son-in-law only took 30% of it, and each family got a share of the other 70%. The brother-in-law only took 50%. This has always been the case."
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"Father, what you said is inappropriate?"
"What's wrong?"
Li Tai explained again, "Most of the money in my brother-in-law's hands was used in the construction of Lishan Mountain. Most of the income from the business was used to build Lishan Mountain. This happened one after another. In fact, the money in my brother-in-law's hands was not much.
I estimate that it is at most 70,000 guan, which is not as huge as the 100,000 guan mentioned by my father."
After calming down again, Li Shimin wanted to laugh but couldn't. If Qingque's words were true, asking Zhang Yang to spend 60,000 yuan would be almost his entire wealth.
Not to mention the money from the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Yang obtained it from the hands of Japanese people, and the money was placed in the Foreign Affairs Academy since it was transported to Chang'an City. He himself never touched it.
In Lishan, Zhang Yang sneezed loudly while grilling meat skewers, and subconsciously tightened his clothes, "It's not cold today, are you afraid of saying bad things about me?"
Li Yuan took the tea from his granddaughter and said, "Yue'er, the wheat harvest has been abundant. When can we make wine?"
"Why is Grandpa Huang so anxious?"
"It's okay if you don't want to drink the tea."
"Divine Doctor Sun said that Grandpa Huang cannot drink too much water, as it is not good for his health."
Li Yuan still shook his head and focused on Zhang Yang again.
"You always eat grilled chicken wings." Zhang Yang handed over a skewer and began to sort out a basket of chicken feet.
Li Yuan put down the tea in his hand and gnawed on the chicken wings with his old teeth. "You lent Erlang 60,000 guan of silver to collect grain for the official warehouse. Is this enough money?"
"This money is only used to deal with Guanzhong. As for the money outside Guanzhong, it will be checked by the local government and handed over to the court for a decision. There is no need to be too anxious to deal with the subsequent matters, and the turnaround is easy."